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Blog posts that are featured on the home page.

Bozeman High and Gallatin High Sports

KGVM is proud to be the exclusive broadcaster of Bozeman high schools’ sports – we will be covering both the Bozeman Hawks and the Gallatin Raptors this year! The first home game is Friday, Sep. 11, as the Raptors take on Great Falls High. We will carry both the Bozeman Hawk Football and Gallatin Raptors home games!

We have openings for sponsors for the football games, both for the season and for individual games. Get the message out about your company or organization to people and support broadcasts of the games – that’s a win-win! With attendance limits on games, we anticipate a lot of fans listening on the radio.

Virtual SLAM Festival

For a lot of us here in the Gallatin Valley, Sweet Pea Festival and SLAM are cornerstones of our summers. This year, things are obviously a little different. Although there won’t be live performances in Lindley and Bogert Parks, KGVM is going to help create a “virtual SLAM” festival for you on Aug. 8 and 9, playing a lot of local music throughout the weekend. We will work in some interviews with local musicians and artists as well. We are all about local arts and artists, and we are happy to do what we can to help support them in these trying times.

A virtual tater pig or a virtual frosty beverage from the SLAM beer tent aren’t going to cut it, but we suggest you check out the SLAM and Sweet Pea Festival events that will take place the weekend of Aug. 7-9. We even spied mention of drive-through tater pigs!!

If you are a local musician, drop us an email at info@kgvm.org. We’d love to play your music – let us know if there are any particular cuts you would like us to play. We have a fair collection of local musicians’ work, but if we are missing yours, we’d love to make sure you are in the mix. Live recordings would be awesome! And don’t forget the virtual tip jar – send us your Paypal and/or Venmo info and we’ll get that out 3there for people too!

While you are supporting local musicians and artists, we hope you might be able to support your home-town community radio station as well!

State Baseball Tournament

The American Legion State AA tournament will be held in Billings on Aug. 5 – 9. The Bozeman Bucks are the conference champions and #1 seed in the tournament, and we plan to broadcast the Bucks’ games from the tournament. The schedule is not set yet – we will post an update when we know.

We are raising funds to send Mark Miller to Helena to announce the games. If you can help out, please donate to KGVM – if you donate online, just put “Bucks Baseball” in the comment field and we’ll make sure your donation goes toward Mark’s expenses.

GO BUCKS!

Election 2020

KGVM is carrying a number of debates and candidate forums that are being held in advance of the upcoming primary election here in Montana. Check the Election 2020 section to listen to any of them on demand.

Human Capital – COVID-19 Updates

KGVM is now airing a new segment called “Human Capital”, in which MT Senator JP Pomnichowski of Bozeman talks about how our local, state, and federal governments function. The initial episodes have been status updates about the COVID-19 pandemic, and we anticipate that to be the case for a while.

You can hear Human Capital on weekdays at 8:00 AM, 11:50 AM, and 5:00 PM, and on weekends at 9:00 AM, noon, and 5:00 PM. The segments are also available on our web site under Human Capital.

State Championship Basketball

The Bozeman Hawks and the Lady Hawks both qualified for the State AA Basketball tournament, which will be held in Bozeman on March 12-14, 2020. KGVM is the exclusive local broadcaster of Hawks sports, and we’ll be airing the Bozeman games. Ian Laird will be courtside on Thursday, Mar. 12 at 3:30 for the girls’ game, and he’ll be back again at 8:00 that evening for the boys’ game. Depending on how those games go, there will games on Friday and possibly Saturday as well. Go Hawks!!

Northwestern Energy’s new Energy Resource Procurement Plan

KGVM Public Affairs host and producer, Joy LaClaire, attended and recorded recent public hearings to review Northwestern Energy’s new Energy Resource Procurement Plan, and we invite you to listen to a two-hour compilation she assembled of some of the presentations and public commentary. The recordings are available in our Community Issues section using this link, along with additional links and contacts you can use if you would like more information. The public comment period on the plan ends on Jan. 6, so this is a time-critical issue. We will air the recordings on Friday morning at 9:00 AM, Saturday at 4:00 PM, and Sunday at noon.

Christmas Stroll Open House

On Sat., Dec. 7, from 4:30 to 7:30, KGVM will host an open house at the studos, in the basement of the Labor Temple at 422 E. Mendenhall. There will be tours of the studio, Christmas gift shopping, free wrapping, and treats and refreshments!

KGVM Christmas Stroll Open House

 

We hope to see you at our open house during the Christmas Stroll. We’ll be playing some tunes – say hello to our listeners. And check out the new T-shirt designs – hot off the presses! Plus, we have brand-new long-sleeve black T-shirts with the 4-color KGVM logo.

Bozeman Hawks Football and Basketball

We are proud to be chosen as the exclusive broadcaster of Bozeman Hawks’ home football and basketball games this fall and winter! The football season starts this Friday, Sept. 6, with a game against Big Sky High of Missoula. The next home game is the following Friday, Sept. 13, against Billings Senior. Next is Homecoming on Sept. 27 vs. Great Falls High, then a next-door neighbor game against Belgrade High on Oct. 11, and the season winds up on Oct. 25 with a game against Billings West for Senior night.

Kickoff for all games is at 7:00 PM, and Ian Laird will be calling the games with a roster of special guests providing color commentary. Tune in!

We’ve Moved!!

KGVM celebrated its first anniversary of being on the air at 95.9 FM on May 11, 2019! But we didn’t have a party then, because everyone was in the midst of making preparations to move the studio. Our first year in our studio on Haggerty Lane was great, but we got an opportunity to move to a space in downtown Bozeman, and we jumped at the opportunity. We just completed the move into our new space in the basement of the Gallatin Labor Temple, located at 422 E. Mendenhall.

We will be holding an open house from 6:00 to 8:00 on Friday, July 12, during the Art Walk. Please stop by and have a look around!

Connect with KGVM

Watch this space for announcements of upcoming DJ trainings and our next station meeting. If you’re interested in getting involved with community radio, fill out the form on our Join Us page, or email us at info@kgvm.

Upcoming Events!

Transport back in time with members of KGVM and our gracious hosts at Valhalla Meadery! We are excited to have some members of the Bozeman Chapter of The Society for Creative Anachronism attending in garb! Ye Kyle Kulseth will be joining us for a witty Medieval comedy set. Come down to Valhalla (875 Bridger Drive) on Saturday, February 23 from 7 – 10 PM for a fun fundraising night of music, mead, and merriment.

Garb, costumes, and dressing up is highly encouraged!

Your donation of $5 or more goes to KGVM Gallatin Valley Community Radio.

Equipment Malfunction

On Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, one of the pieces of equipment that gets the signal from our studio to the transmitter up on a hill southwest of Four Corners malfunctioned. This time of year, getting up to the tower is a little tricky. We have secured parts to repair the equipment, and we expect to have the transmitter back on the air on Sunday, Jan. 27, if things go according to plan.
Update On Sunday, Jan. 27, we were able to snowmobile up to the tower and get the equipment repaired – we got back on the air around 1:30 PM.

Larry Kiff profiled in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle

We’ve all enjoyed listening to Larry Kiff on his monthly show, last Mondays at 1:00 PM. Now he’s been profiled in a story in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. Check it out to learn more about Larry’s history, his upcoming performance at the Red Ants Pants Music Festival, and his goal of making it to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville.

You can enjoy Larry’s shows from the KGVM studios in our Music from Here program.

Upcoming Events

Station Meeting: Normally 3rd Thursday of every month, 6-8 pm at the Elks Lodge Ballroom. 205 Haggerty Lane. However, we will not have a meeting in December, since everyone is probably busy with various holiday activities around that time. We’ll see everyone in January.

We have a couple of scheduling conflicts, so we are planning to have the station meeting on the 4th Thursday, Jan. 24, this month. Hope to see you there!

Station Training: Our next training is Thursday, January 17th at 6:30 pm at the KGVM studio, 205 Haggerty Lane, Suite 150. For more information or to be notified about future trainings, contact us by email at info@kgvm.org.